Down and to the Right: Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
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We’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster and we’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in an improvement in speed.

In order to measure the user experience, Firefox collects a wide range of anonymized timing metrics related to page load, responsiveness, startup and other aspects of browser performance. Collecting data while holding ourselves to the highest standards of privacy can be challenging. For example, because we rely on aggregated metrics, we lack the ability to pinpoint data from any particular website. But perhaps even more challenging is analyzing the data once collected and drawing actionable conclusions. In the future we’ll talk more about these challenges and how we’re addressing them, but in this post we’d like to share how some of the metrics that are fundamental to how our users experience the browser have improved throughout the year.

      • Fisch
        2·
        1 year ago

        There’s also Obtainium, which might be better to use if you need to update other stuff aside from browsers, that’s not on F-Droid. Better to have just one of them running in the background instead of both if them.

    • dadaredone
      41·
      1 year ago

      It’s not good, developer has no guarantee for updates and the app is notably left outdated for months.

      • MoshBit@beehaw.org
        3·
        1 year ago

        That’s literally not true in the slightest. I’ve had at least two updates in the past month.

        • dadaredone
          3·
          1 year ago

          friend i’ve been tracking that browser from 2 years now and it really has a bad update cycle, i gave up on that browser due to same reason.

          • el_abuelo
            2·
            1 year ago

            “Gave up on” and “tracking for 2 years now” in the same sentence…you’re sending mixed messages.

            • dadaredone
              1·
              1 year ago

              English is not my primary language, it’s still raw pardon it convyed certain message that i basically don’t use that browser anymore due to updates even the developer agrees on this.

    • mayooooo@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks will try it. And I try to use obtanium, it’s really good for this kind of stuff, checks and downloads fr github

      Edit: tried it, it’s faster it seems. But it has the same problem as the regular ff - if there is a firefox purple notification on the screen the rest of the ui is locked. You can swipe, sure, but for some reason this is infuriating